I have servere anxiety and I was wondering if it can turn into Schizophrenia?
I was reading an article about a woman who started showing signs of achizophrenia and she would ahve these crazy thoughts about crazy things and after I read that article I woke up the next feeling so anxious and kept thinking all day about this woman and I was thinking what if I start thinking this way and I was making myself so anxious about these thoughts. I was researching Schizophrenis and I know that they believe their voices or thoughts and and I know that it is no true. What do you think is wrong with me?
Lol. Sounds like hypochondria to me.
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It seriously does sound like hypochondria coupled with anxiety. You think you have the condition, so you research it and find things that you think link you to it.
Schizophrenia is a totally different disorder and an extreme one at that. Schizophrenics are completely out of it, commonly hear voices, have hallucinations, and create their own reality in which they are either in a position of grandeur or have some kind of source of valuable info, $, something that others do not.
April 10th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
No.
Schizophrenia is when you ‘hear voices’ in your head and you do things like wear aluminum foil hats to keep the government from listening in on your thoughts. It’s commonly thought of as ’split personality disorder’ but it’s more with the voices.
Anxiety is a different problem.
Please consult a mental health professional (psychiatrist or psychologist) for an evaluation and treatment plan if you need help. In most cases, anxiety can be dealt with by diet, lifestyle changes and counseling.
You are not schizophrenic, however you over-worry (anxiety).
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April 10th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
You’re "talking" yourself into it by dwelling on it so much. How about forgetting the negative and consentrating on the positive for a while?
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April 10th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
First of all I’m not saying this to be mean but you need to see a psychiatrist. My Wife suffers from severe anxiety and when she went to see one she felt much better. The doctors originally wanted to put her on medication which at first she took but after reading the side effects it would cause her to have even worse anxiety because she was afraid she would end up wanting to kill herself. Now when she starts to have an anxiety attack she will litter ally start reading either a children’s book or start to say the alphabet in her head in a weird way to to make her mind think of something else. If you e-mail me I am sure she would be very grateful to help you out. seriously what she does works.
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April 10th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Lol. Sounds like hypochondria to me.
Who thumbs downed me?
It seriously does sound like hypochondria coupled with anxiety. You think you have the condition, so you research it and find things that you think link you to it.
Schizophrenia is a totally different disorder and an extreme one at that. Schizophrenics are completely out of it, commonly hear voices, have hallucinations, and create their own reality in which they are either in a position of grandeur or have some kind of source of valuable info, $, something that others do not.
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Getting my minor in psych, thankyouverymuch.
April 10th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
DON"T RESEARCH SCHIZOPHRENIA!! if you have anxiety that is only going to make things worse for you. anxiety does not turn into schizophrenia and the fact that you’re worried about it shows that your only worrying. so relax, breathe, and let it go. your anxiety is just looking for something else to fear
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April 10th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Not likely. Anxiety is fairly common (clinical anxiety slightly less so) and schizophrenia fairly rare. Especially if you don’t have a close relative with schizophrenia, as a lot of schizophrenia is due to a genetic predisposition. Anxiety and stress does trigger schizophrenia if you are vulnerable to it, but again unless there is a familly history, this is still unlikely.
What you are most likely suffering from is the medical student effect. In any disorder, the symptoms usually are experienced by normal people some of the time, to a lesser degree. People read about the disorder, recognise certain symptoms, and assume this means they suffer from this disorder. In reality, it’s only when it becomes constant and interferes with your functioning that it is likely to be a clinical condition.
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